The installation is failing with the following log information found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Setup Bootstrap\Log\[log folder]\Detail_ComponentUpdate.txt
First, with no luck installing from the downloaded .exe file, I extracted it into its own directory and clicked the “setup” file within the extracted folder structure.
Log information in the Detail_ComponentUpdate.txt log file shows that the installation was succeeding until it hit a long series of "does not exist" statements. When I cross-checked the start directory in the path to the "does not exist" file in the log file, and the actual directory tree structure (in the installation folder that was extracted), I notice that it is looking for files within its own installation directory that are there, but in the wrong path. For example “File 'C:\SQLEXPR_x64_ENU\x64\setup\sql_engine_core_inst_msi\x64\sql_engine_core_inst.msi' does not exist”. Of course it doesn’t. That’s because the second x64 directory in the path doesn’t exist. The file is there, just not in an additional x64 directory.
What needs to be done to remedy this?
Thanks